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Satire in the Global Village By Dan Geddes[1] From the talk, “Satire in the Global Village” given at the Institute of General Semantics’ symposium on “Language and Reality” on October 3, 2015 at the Princeton Club in New York. First published in Anek... More »
Harold Bloom was America’s best known literary critic for at least 30 years. Reading Bloom’s books were often a guilty pleasure for me. He wrote effusively in superlatives about his favorite writers, the writers of the “traditional” Wes... More »
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman (Translated by Elizabeth Manton) Review by Dan Geddes Rutger Bregman (Utopia for Realists) makes compelling arguments for the redistribution of the unprecedented wealth of the contemporary world. Bregman collects and prese... More »
(With apologies to Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”) I. April is the cruelest month, when youthful hearts with passion burn, and everyone else must file an income tax return. II. Draft versions of her tax retur... More »
Introduction The competition to become a top corporate manager has never been fiercer. While old school corporate management values such as efficiency and vision still have their place, studies in several countries have shown that sociopaths and psychopaths ar... More »
Intelligence Agencies “Live in Fear” WASHINGTON – Many Trump supporters are convinced that Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp” is right on track. “Trump is playing 3-D Chess against the Deep State. And he’s kicking their butt!” said Clet... More »
By Dan Geddes AMSTERDAM – Jan Smit, 44, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), proposed yesterday that Dutch should become the new official language of the EU after Brexit finally takes place next year. “It can’t be German,” said Smit, “for semi-ob... More »
LAS VEGAS – Ray Milland, 45, a self-proclaimed “heavy drinker” is very sure that he’s not an alcoholic. Mr. Milland, an executive for the United Beverage Company was recently interviewed by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), after Milland had Tweeted that: “... More »
By Dan Geddes WASHINGTON – In a move described as “accepting reality” the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declared plastic to be “a major food group.” US FDA spokesperson Carl Manson stated: “We admit that trace amounts of plastic lea... More »
WASHINGTON – While most Americans support the U.S. drive for world domination, some have confessed to harboring doubts about the master plan. A recent CNN / Langley University poll of Americans showed that 18% of Americans were skeptical about the U.S. maste... More »
Thomas Pynchon is one of the most influential and critically revered American novelists of his time. Pynchon’s verbal virtuosity, multi-dimensional erudition, and anarchic sense of humor have earned him the title of “bard of the counterculture.R... More »
By Dan Geddes MENLO PARK – A recent New York Times/Facebook survey found that a supermajority of Americans believe that America should be fighting bigger wars against ever more powerful enemies. On the New York Times website as well as on Facebook, reade... More »